Chinese Journalists Protest Official Censorship

BEIJING—A group of prominent journalists is demanding the resignation of a senior propaganda official in southern China who they say unjustifiably censored an editorial.

Dai Zhiyong, a commentator for Southern Weekly, wrote a New Year's editorial that picked up on a catchphrase used in recent weeks by China's new leader Xi Jinping—the "China Dream"—to advocate greater checks on government powers and for more personal...